Improvement in hominy-mills



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y amasar@ @anni @Wina EDEN M', cooMBEsgor MEMPHIS, INDIANA..

` Letters Patent No. 10.53430, dated Joly I9, 1870.

'IIMRRQVEMENT IN Hom'nur-Mutter.y

The 4Selnnle refeifredto in these Letters Patent land 'making part of the same.

Toul'l lwhom it. may concern.-

Be it'known thatI, EDENM. GooMBEs, of Memphs, in the county 'of Clark and inthe State of In? diana, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements inHominy-Mills; and do hereby declare that the following .isa full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference being ,had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference'marked thereon, making a part of thi's specieation.` f

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of a hominy-mill, as will. be hereinafter fully set forth.

In order to enable othersskilled inthevr art, to'

which my invention appertains to make and use the same,Iwill now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring r to the annexed drawing, in`

vvhich- ,l I

' Figure 1 is a side elevation, part in section, of my fhominy-mlhand Figure 2 is a horizontal section` of the same, taken A "represents the .frame-Work of machine, in which is, by suitable means, suspended a'circular sheetiroll pan, B, having a-ld, C, part of which is firmly secured, and the balance is hinged and fastened by al `bntton,D. i, Y

i The bottom ofthe pan'B is inclined from its'edges,

" or outer periphery dov'vnwardtothe outer edge or peripheryof `a core, E, placed injthe. center ofl the pan.. r A

The thus inclinedbottom of the panB isrperforated wit'hfya number of slots,`s`oas`to allow the meal, of whichl there isal'ways' more orless made, as the cornis reduced, to fallout and be separated from the hominy.

` 1 d This bottom is also provided with 'a door, G, through a which the hominy isdischargedeven when the mill' is in motion. l

An upright sha-ft, H,'passe's. through the upper pora I tion of the'frame A and ,through the lid C, andhas a y collar, a, onit, which rests upon the lid, and conse,-

quently 'supports the shaft.

On `the "lower-end yof the upright shaft H is secured a series of curved horizontal arms I -I, forming a reel, on the under side of which the cutting-knives are firmly attached. A These,` knives are perpendicular, some of" them, b. b, being double-edged, and others, d d,- single-edged, as sen in fig.v 2. The arms I I being-curved, it places the outer knives a littie in advance of the ones next to them, in like manner the next ones,'an d so on, iu order that the corn maybe equally distributed over the .bottomV of the concave pan. y The corn' is kept a suitable distance from the exact cent-er by means of the core E, which may be of any desirab'le size and material, so that thecorn may be re` duced as fast bythe middle knives as by the outer.Y

vThe corn isput in the pan B by means of the hinged portion of the lid 0, and the upright shaft H put in motionin the direction as indicated. by the points of the arms I I.v

Having'thus fully described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure-by Letters Patent, is-' 1. The combination of the circular pan provided KK nithan inclined bottom land core E, shaftH', and horizontal reelI I, with double-edge knives b b and single- Iedge knives'd d, all constructed to operate substantially in themanner set forth. a 2. The combination ofthe double knives b b and single knives d d, all arranged on the reel I, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combnationof the pan B,V core E, door G,

shaft II, arms I I, and knives b b and d d, all constructed and arranged as'described, to operate substantially in the manner and for the purposes hereinl set forth.

` In testimonythat Iclaim Athe foregoing, I have hereunto set my. hand this vv5th day of October, 1869.

Witnesses:

E. S. BAILEY,

T. J j. OoFFMAN.

EDEN M. oooMBEsf 

